The Jony Ive biography is an interesting choice for the 39-year-old whose meteoric rise in politics gave many hope. The two men seem a study in contrast: Renzi is by most accounts a firebrand where Ive is soft spoken. Renzi was once a game-show contestant — winning €48,000 (about $64,000) — on the Italian edition of Wheel of Fortune, whereas Apple’s star designer is self-effacing and rather introverted. Renzi, when not governing Italy, heads home to a bland, gated house near Florence. Ive leaves Cupertino everyday to head back to this retro-tastic manse in San Francisco’s ‘Billionaire’s Row.’

One thing’s for sure: Renzi has reason to study up. Italy’s youngest PM ever has his work cut out for him: The boot-shaped country just officially slipped back into recession and Silvio Berlusconi, newly rehabilitated by courts, threatens to bring the political old guard back with a vengeance.

What lessons do you think Italy’s Premier could take from Jony’s playbook?

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What kind of lesson could learn a man who still treats with Silvio Berlusconi? Italy will never change with this false-young premier. He’s the worse Italian non-elected premier yet.